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Editing CSS code - novice needs help

Help, I have built a vertical navigation bar with a free CSS code builder which generates code. I have copied the files into the file manager, can anyone give me some advice as to how to edit the code I can't seem to make it work. Thanking you in advance.

Hello Penny,
This is not my area of specialty so I am hoping someone else on the forum here can give you some help. I am also going to forward this to our HTML team for some assistance from them. Please allow for 48 hours for them to respond.

Can you post the code that they gave you so I can take a look at it? And, how much files are there? Are you linking to them correctly in the code? When you tried to put the code on the site were you putting it into an HTML widget?

Hi Nathan
This is the code I got, I have put the files into file manager one as css and one as images, I have tried to amend the css style and have managed to turn the menu container white but can't do anything else. I'm not sure what tags to use and didn't use a html widget.

Please could you share your URL with us - so that we can take a look for you - I know that me and Nathan have Google Chrome which means that we can use the Developer Tools to help you. If your site is not published yet, you could just publish to a free domain for the moment.

Also, I would just like to confirm that you have added the HTML Code for the menu already - and that your menu is displaying on the page in some form - usually a series of blue underlined links.

Also make sure that the tags are actually:

***CSS Code goes here***

Thanks,

Once we've got these issues cleared up and we can see for ourselves the menu on the page, I am sure that we can fix this.

Hi Andi,
My url is www.academic-proofs.co.uk - I have the site published all links etc working I have edited through the css
My menu is the basic one from Yola - have managed to amend through coding.
I am very rusty with web design so thought getting free code might be a good idea. I would just like it to look a little more professional. I don't know CSS so don't know where to post the code as I don't understand the language. I am a bit confused as I am told not to edit HTML but when I do it seems to work.
Hope you can help
Regards
Penny

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I shall take a look at this later - I have work in the morning (I am in the UK and it is now 01:30 am and I need to be in work in 8.5 hours! So I will speak later - I have started to get somewhere but there are still a few teething issues.

I shall have an answer for you by about 19:00 BST tomorrow - is that okay?

Did you copy that out of the Custom CSS? If so, you should remove that HTML out, as that Custom CSS is only for CSS.

This code is confusing because it looks like your source. Can you post just the HTML that the menu generator gave you and the CSS that they gave you? Once you post that, I'll be able to assist you further.

Thank you to both of you.
Andi sleep well, look forward to hearing from you
Nathan I copied it from my custom CSS - I have been round in circles today with CSS and HTML and can't remember where anything originated - will go to the original source tomorrow - like Andi I need to sleep.
Thank you I really appreciate this.
Regards to both of you
Penny

This will give you the menu you require. It will have a 580px content area and your 300px menu with all of the hover and active states. You may need to change the links to the image(s).

I would also recommend that you change the size of the images - using the editor you chose online. The menu is very wide and makes the content area smaller. I would recommend a size of about: 200pixels wide and 25pixels tall.

Good morning all
The original code at the top of this email is what was sent to me as CSS code and saved in file manager as CSS
The other code is my source code.
Yola gives me the option of editing CSS which I have done and then tells me to remove the HTML - I am confused I don't seem able to edit the CSS.
If I take the html out it goes back to default style guide which means I have underlines etc on all links.
Regards
penny

Thank you Andi and Nathan I really appreciate your help, however, I think I must be doing something fundamentally wrong I open the CSS editor copy the site code amend with the new code click OK doesn't do anything and then I go back in and the CSS code is just the same.
Anyway thanks for your help, I think I will just have to stick with what I have.
Regards
Penny

Hi Nathan, I keep saying thank you so will again!
I have managed to tweak it and published it to the web - www.academic-proofs.co.uk - the site is text heavy and not well designed (I am not a graphic designer) any suggestions to style would be very welcome.
Penny